Monday, December 18, 1967
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Blackball Procedure Eliminated
UMOC ■ WESLEYAN’S FINEST
--Lancaster, Pa. - (LP.)-
Beginning this fall, all fratern
ities at Franklin and Marshall
College are required to elimi
nate the blackball procedure
in which a prospective mem
ber may be dismissed by one,
or in some cases several, vote,
against him during his pledge
period.
The dismissal instead re
quires a two-thirds .vote of a
chapter’s membership by
secret ballot. This, according
to a recommendation by a Com
mittee To Study Student Life,
should be done only “when there
is sufficient sentiment on the
part of the membership that
the conduct of any one of its
members is contrary to their
standards of group living,” and
not automatically at the end of
the pledge period.
The Committee described the
“social unacceptability black
ball” as “humiliating and un
necessary,” noting that it found
“distasteful a practice by which
men who are considered ac
ceptable members of the Col
lege community are considered
unacceptable to a self-appointed
organization subordinate to
that community,” The Com
mittee declared that “students
should have the right to choose
their friends and associates,
so long as prejudice or bigotry
are not reasons for rejection,”
but pointed out that “so long
as a blackball procedure exists,
members of fraternities do not
in fact have full right to choose
their fellow members.”
The Decree Offers The Following As An Example Of
Our Staff Photographer’s, Baxter Smith’s, Talent.
We Are Looking Forward To Our Association With Him